What do you do when your family doesn't understand what you are studying in college and keeps pushing you to pursue another major?

I have a little conundrum on my hands: my poorly educated father keeps telling people back home that the bachelor of arts degree I am pursuing in transportation and logistics management is a “trucking school diploma”. Its driving me nuts because I am sick of having to explain to people what a degree in transportation and logistics management actually means and that I can make a very good living with this degree. He even has my grandparents so drawn into the fact that I am earning a “worthless” degree that they constantly remind me that “nursing makes a fine career for a young lady” when I call them every week.

I actually used to be a truck driver before a mild stroke sidelined my driving career in late 2013 and I ALREADY have an actual trucking school diploma that I earned in 2012. My husband works in transportation and logistics for the military: he gave me his GI Bill after we received orders overseas so I could attend college online during our tour. I dabbled in paralegal studies but decided after one class that I didn't really want to be a paralegal so I looked into transportation and logistics management. My husband let me shadow him at work for a couple of days and showed me how complex logistics management really is. I liked what I saw so I changed my major to transportation and logistics management. Due to some transfer credit I had from my first go at college ten years ago, I am actually set to earn an associate's degree in accounting in August of this year. I am also currently scheduled to graduate with a bachelor's degree in transportation and logistics management and a certificate in human resource management in the spring of 2018.

I have repeatedly tried to explain to my dad and the rest of my family that the phrase “transportation and logistics management” means FAR more than trucking and that my degree is basically a business degree that focuses on transportation and logistics. Some of the classes that I have to take for my degree plan range from Airport Operations to Port and Coastal Security to Transportation Economics. I have also tried to explain to them that logistics is the art and science of how people, goods and services, etc. are moved from point A to point B and that without transportation and logistics the world as we know it would cease to function. I have also pointed out that pretty much every business uses logistics of some form or another to function so therefore having that skill set is good. No matter how many times that I explain it, he doesn't seem to understand. Like most of my family, he only has a G.E.D and has never attended college so he has no clue.

My husband has actually had troops who earned an associate's degree in transportation studies, left the military soon after and between their military experience and their college degree are making upwards of $60,000 per year working in the logistics field in some capacity or another. Yet, for some odd reason, my family tells me that there are “no jobs” in logistics. Heck, the local Army base in my husband's hometown is currently hiring for five logistics jobs that I would be qualified for after I graduate from college. The fact that I will also have training in accounting and human resource management will also boost my chances for a good job.

How do I convince my dad (and the rest of my family) that my degree isn't worthless and that he needs to better educate himself on what I am actually studying BEFORE he tells people that its a “trucking school diploma”? He also likes to tell people that my husband is a truck driver for the military when my husband's career field doesn't even involve vehicle operations. Its making me crazy because I'm constantly trying to correct people back home when they talk about the “trucking school diploma” I am supposedly earning. My dad even said that he would be “more proud” of me if I stopped my education at the associate's degree in accounting and went to work as a bookkeeper. He also said that I need to stop “wasting” my time with the “silly logistics stuff” and pursue a “real” job, whatever a “real job” means. My family doesn't seem to understand that just because they have never heard of a job/field of study doesn't mean that it doesn't exist and that it isn't a viable career option.